Arman (November 17, 1928 - October 22, 2005), was a French-born American artist and a prolific and experimental creator.Like many, he questioned traditional views on the nature of art. Still, he never abandoned a traditional sense of beauty in his composition. His works are at once industrial and whimsical. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practising the arts and/or demonstrating an art. ...

Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is best known for his artwork, though he was also, at times, a Judo master, a spear fisherman, and a collector of antiquities. Though he was a dreamer, he worked tirelessly on his creations. He employed an array of techniques, from "accumulations" to drawings, paintings, sculpture, casting and even installations and happenings. He was influenced by Dada and influenced Pop Art. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Judo ), meaning gentle way, is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. ...

Biography

Arman's father, Antonio Fernandez, an antiques dealer in Nice, was also an amateur artist and photographer, as well as a cellist. From his father, Arman learned oil painting and photography. After receiving his bachelor's degree in philosophy and mathematics in 1946, Arman began studying at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Nice. He also began learning Judo at a police Judo School in Nice where he met the artists Yves Klein and Claude Pascal. The trio would bond closely on a subsequent hitchhiking tour of the nations of Europe. Completing his studies in 1949, Arman enrolled as a student at the École du Louvre in Paris, where he concentrated on the study of archaeology and oriental art. In 1951, Arman became a teacher at the Bushido Kai Judo School. During this time he also served in the French military, completing his tour of duty as a medical orderly during the Indo-Chinese War. Mona Lisa, Oil on wood panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a sensor or film. ... Judo ), meaning gentle way, is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. ... Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... The Ecole du Louvre is an institution of higher education and French Grande École dedicated to the study of Archaeology, History of Art, Anthropology and Epigraphy. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...

Early in the development of his career, it was apparent that Arman's concept of the accumulation of vast quantities of the same objects; paint tubes, ball bearings, car parts, musical instruments, paint brushes, stamped patterns, was to remain a significant component of his art. Ironically, Arman had originally focused more attention on his abstract paintings, considering them to be of more consequence than his early accumulations of postage stamps. Only when he witnessed viewer reaction to the accumulation did he fully realize the power of such artworks. At the beginning of the Post-War age of consumerism, mass-production, and cookie-cutter suburban housing tracts, Arman's accumulation works held the glass to a society which had readily accepted an inundation of ready-made, identical, machine built consumer goods. Black square by Kazimir Malevich Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses colour and form in a non-representational way. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary The term post-war is generally used for the period after the end of World War II, i. ...

Inspired by an exhibition for the German Dadaist, Kurt Schwitters, in 1954 Arman began working on "Cachets", his first major artistic undertaking. At his premier solo exhibition, held in Paris’s Galerie du Haut-Pave, Arman unveiled his accumulation pieces. These stamps on paper and fabric were to prove a success and were to provide an important change of course for the young artist’s career. Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. ...

Another important change for Arman came in 1958 when, due to a printer’s error on an exhibition announcement, he changed the spelling of his name from Armand to Arman. It was around this time that Arman’s work began its most serious evolution, beginning with his two most renowned concepts: Accumulation and Poubelle. Accumulations were collections of identical every day objects in Plexiglas or glass cases. The Poubelle were collections of strewn refuse. In 1960, he filled the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris with garbage, creating Le Plein ("Full Up") as a contrepoint of the exhibition called Le Vide at the same gallery two years earlier by his friend Yves Klein. These works began to garner the attention of the European art community. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. ...

In October 1960, together with Arman, Yves Klein, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé, the art critic and philosopher Pierre Restany founded the group Nouveaux Réalistes, joined later by Cesar, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle and Christo, the group of young artists defined themselves as bearing in common their "new perspective approachs of reality". They were reassessing the concept of art and the artist for a 20th Century consumer society by reasserting the humanistic ideals in the face of industrial expansion. Later American Pop artists would continue the trend of embracing the everyday through artistic expression, elevating the banal to the esoteric. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. ... Raymond Hains (Dinard, 1926 - Paris, October 28, 2005) was a French artist and photographer. ... Daniel Spoerri (born Daniel Isaac Feinstein 27 March 1930) is a Romanian-born French dancer and performance artist. ... Image:Basel. ... Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist famous for his ripped or lacerated posters (a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or... Pierre Restany (born 24 June 1930, died 29 May 2003), was a French art critic, has incarnated one of the last figures of the militant critic and a passionate supporter of movements of neo-vanguard, a companion of road of young artists, a shining essayist. ... ... Cesar (Spanish, French and Portuguese - as César - for Caesar) may refer to: Cesar Department, Colombia César Award people: César Pelli César Chávez César Baldaccini aka. ... Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006) was an Italian artist and poet best known for his works of décollage, made from torn advertising posters. ... Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle, née Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle (October 29, 1930 - May 21, 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. ... Christo Yavasheff (born June 13, 1935) is an artist popularly known as Christo. ...

In 1961, Arman made his debut in the United States, the country which was to become his home. During this period, Arman explored creation via destruction. The Coupes and the Colères, which featured sliced and smashed objects arranged on canvas, often in the exact scatter patterns in which they fell, provide a glimpse of the aesthetic qualities inherent in chaos.

Arman can be seen in Andy Warhol's film Dinner at Daley's, a documentation of a dinner performance by the Fluxus artist Daniel Spoerri that Warhol filmed on March 5, 1964. Throughout his portrait screen test film, Arman sits in profile, looking down, appearing to be entranced in his reading, seemingly unaware of Warhol's camera, only making small gestures, rubbing his eyes and licking the corner of his mouth. He remained silent, eyes gazing over the pages of what seemed to be a newspaper, in this four-minute 16mm black & white reel. Warhol owned two of Arman's Poubelles and another accumulation called Amphetamines, which were put up for sale at Sotheby's auction of the Andy Warhol Collection in May 1988. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist, a central figure in the movement known as Pop Art. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Daniel Spoerri (born Daniel Isaac Feinstein 27 March 1930) is a Romanian-born French dancer and performance artist. ... 16 mm film was initially created in the 1920s as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. ... PR shot of Sothebys New York, from auditions for The Apprentice 2  It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. ...

Enamored with the scene in New York, Arman took up residency in the city, just after his first exhibition at the Cordier Ekstrom. In 1973 he would become an American citizen. In New York, first at the Chelsea Hotel, and later at his more official studios, Arman began work on ever increasingly ambitious projects. There were varied expansions of the Accumulations, their content included tools, watches, clocks, furniture, automobile parts, jewelry, and, of course, music instruments in various stages of dismemberment. Musical instruments, specifically the strings and the brass, would come to form a major constituent of Arman’s oeuvre. Perhaps it was his father’s love for the cello which inspired him, or his own love of the invocative shapes of the instruments themselves, that led Arman to create myriad musical themed works in media as varied as ink and bronze. A well-known residence for artists, musicians and writers, the Hotel Chelsea is located in the neighborhood of Chelsea in New York City. ...

While Arman’s creations are varied in their style, composition and form, they are also quite varied in their size. The smallest Accumulations of watch parts are only a few centimeters high, while the largest and most ambitious are the monumental works, publicly commissioned artworks of an epic scale. One of the most significant is Long Term Parking, which is on permanent display at the Chateau de Moncel in Jouy-en-Josas, France. Completed in 1982, the sculpture is an eighteen-meter high accumulation of sixty automobiles embedded in over forty thousand pounds of concrete. Just as ambitious was the 1995 work Hope for Peace, which was specially commissioned by the Lebanese government to commemorate fifty years of the Lebanese military’s service. Standing in once war-torn Beirut, the thirty-two meter monument consists of eighty-three tanks and military vehicles that Arman transformed from war machines into a living artistic vision for peace. Jouy-en-Josas is a French commune in the département of the Yvelines, in the région ÃŽle-de-France, 4 km southeast of Versailles and 19 km southwest of Paris. ... For other uses, see Beirut (disambiguation). ...

Arman married in 1953 to the electronic music composer Eliane Radigue (two daughters, Marion, 1951 and Anne 1953, and one son Yves Arman 1954, deceased in 1989). He then married in 1971, Corice Canton (one son, Philippe 1987, one daughter, Yasmine 1982). His sixth and last child, Yves Cesar, was born outside marriage in 1989. Eliane Radigue (born 1932) is a French electronic music composer whose work, since the early 1970s, has been almost exclusivly created a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. ... Yves Arman born Yves Fernandez on September 18th 1954,in Nice, died on February 15th 1989, at Sarragosa (Spain) was an art dealer, collector, and writer. ...

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